Entries for the ‘Tips’ Category

Character vs. Reputation

Character is what one is; reputation is what one is thought to be by others.
What is your company’s reputation when it comes to customer service?  Provide great customer service and the referrals will come in quickly; upset a client and as quickly as the business came in the door, it can leave.   Remember, an individual [...]

REVIEW: Wacom Intuos4

In the web and print design industry proper tool selection and proficient usage can make or break your productivity; be it a computer that’s fast enough with a large enough screen, a high-quality large format printer, an appropriate design software suite, or your choice of input devices such as keyboards and mice. In this review [...]

Copying and Pasting in CKEditor

Having Problems Copy/Pasting to CKEditor?
First, what is CKEditor? CKEditor, formerly FCKeditor, is an open source WYSIWYG text editor (WYSIWYG, pronounced [wiz-ee-wig], is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get) from CKSource that can be used in web pages. It aims to be lightweight and requires no client-side installation. The first version [...]

9 Steps to Differentiating Your Business Model

Startups and young companies often put too much time into developing business plans and pretty power points and not enough time into developing their business model, testing their hypothesis, and proving their assumptions.
There are thousands of business planning competitions that go on throughout the year all across the country. In these competitions, teams are [...]

Creating a Facebook style menu (The BAM Menu)

One of the questions we get most often about our website is, “How did you do your primary navigation menu?” (actually it’s normally worded more like, “I really like that menu thingy at the bottom of you web page. It’s like facebook! How’d you do that?”) You can see the navigation on our main site [...]

Tips to Creating an Effective Social Media Strategy

It can be very easy to get lost in the social media world. Jumping on the social networking bandwagon is very tempting, but don’t get in a rush to do so! Starting to tweet, post and blog without a well-defined strategy can leave you questioning your efforts. Before you start your journey into the social [...]

pro’ac·tiv’i·ty Acting in Advance

First, this is not a blog about acne treatment. And, unfortunately, Jessica Simpson is not endorsing this message. But, hopefully you’ll read on anyhow.
Recently, all us Bammers faced some difficult challenges. After many months of very hard work it came time to release a project “into the wild” so to speak, actually it was released [...]

SEM V.S. SEO

What do SEM and SEO really stand for? SEM and SEO stand for Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization, respectively. SEO has a bigger popularity amongst web users, as most people have an idea of the process involved in an SEO campaign. Nevertheless, using SEO and SEM together can sometimes be confusing.
SEM (search engine [...]

Link Building 101

Link Building is a very timely process that increases the amount of inbound links on a web site. Link Building will help a site gain higher rankings on search engines as well as increase traffic and brand awareness. In my opinion, there are five main components to Link Building which include:
1. Time – Link building [...]

Improving Workplace Culture

If you were to take two businesses in the same industry, with the same amount of employees, having the same equipment and software, one will outperform the other; with the only noticeable differences being the unique personalities and the office space. So, how did each company derive the culture that has been imbedded into the [...]